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Losing the Lecture

This week, we present a story that American RadioWorks correspondent Emily Hanford recently did for NPR news. It looks at what’s wrong with the traditional lecture, and what some physicists are doing to get rid of it.

A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies don't make schools safer and lead to disproportionate discipline for students of color.